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Shoulder to shoulder in Australia’s men’s sheds
This shows pick up a conversation that began on Australian Broadcasting, when presenter Lisa Leong invited me to talk about third places on her weekly call-in show and asked listeners to tell us about their third places. We heard about park...
A Visit to India: The Art of Adda and Third Places
When I was first alerted to the Bengali conversational style, or practice, called adda, I thought of Ray Oldenburg’s description of what conversation in a third place is, or ought to be:
Conversation’s improved quality within the third p...
Jason Arday, university anxiety, and academic hyperbole
The bridge between Hereford College and New College, Oxford University. Photo by Ugur Akdemir.
I have often walked under the Oxford bridge pictured above, as my friends sneaked me past the porters into New College a year or two before it w...
October 2001, New York City
The Memorial Pool, stunning and heartwrenching.
9/11 2005
It was a business dinner at the elegant Four Seasons restaurant, held every month by Marty Edelston, publisher of the Boardroom Reports newsletters. I’m invited every year becau...
The Third Place Conviviality of "Sobre Mesa"
Guillermo Bernal of Placemaking México joined me last week to talk about “sobre mesa,” the Spanish and Mexican tradition of lingering at the table long after the meal is over. This conversation about hospitality, community, and the customs...
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Coauthor of The Great Good Place II, expert on third places and green urbanism, CEO of #BerkshirePubGroup, research associate at Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and editor of the Encyclopedia of Community. Nuts about passenger rail.
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